Because We Had To

G             Bm              C
Well you were wrong about the way
    D                    G
You said my memory would change
           Bm        C
Day after day, you claimed
   D                        G
I’d find it inside of me to grow
              B
Away from the pain
                      Am
And the shame and the guilt
   C
And the questions
D                  G
Wondering what did I do wrong
     Bm       C                     D
To you, to decide it was time to go


[Chorus]
    G      C      D
Because we had to
        G                     Em
Because I tried the best that I could
  D            C        D
To have and to hold you
        G    D           Em
In the way I knew that I should
    D             C                 D
And we’d still be breathing darling
     G       D          Em       D
If I did the little you asked of me
    C          D                          G  G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


[Verse 2]
                 Bm
The way that the night came down
    C                  D
You were alone in your room
              G
With somebody else
                 Bm                  C
But you were too big, and bold in my eyes
             D
And I was to cowardly to call all your lies
G               Bm                    C
  Well I didn’t know not telling the truth
                 D                    G
Would cost me my soul, and most of my youth
              Bm                 C
So with you I stayed in spite of myself
                 D
And I don’t know why


[Chorus]
    G      C      D
Because we had to
        G                     Em
Because I tried the best that I could
  D            C        D
To have and to hold you
        G    D           Em
In the way I knew that I should
    D             C                 D
And we’d still be breathing darling
     G       D          Em       D
If I did the little you asked of me
    C          D                          G  G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


[Instrumental]
Em D Bm C (x2)


[Bridge]
Em            D
Why would you roam when you knew
         Bm                          C
That I’d always be coming back home, alone, to you?
Em                   D              Bm
You knew that I never, ever, ever, ever
           D
Would have done that to you

Still you did


[Chorus]
    G      C      D
Because we had to
        G                     Em
Because I tried the best that I could
  D            C        D
To have and to hold you
        G    D           Em
In the way I knew that I should
    D             C                   D
And we’d still be breathing darling
     G       D          Em       D
If I did the little you asked of me
    C          D                          G  G
But I couldn’t, so now we’re nothing at all


[Verse 3]
                 C       D
And when we were younger
        G       F#m         Em   D
And our hearts outpaced our wits
       C       D
It was better
    G              D             Em     D
and I preferred to live in the ignorance
           C  D
In the bubble
         G            Em       E
that you built with a fake façade
       D           C
In the guise of another
               D                     G
Well you sold lies and I bought them all